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Summary

Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters step the reader through his key concepts of being, subject and truth via startling re-readings of canonical figures including Spinoza, Kant and Hegel and engagements with poetry, psychoanalysis and radical politics. Theoretical Writings is an indispensable introduction to one of the great thinkers of our time.

Author Biography

Alain Badiou teaches at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works including Being and Event, also published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series. Ray Brassier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Editor's NoteAuthor's Preface

Part I. Mathematics is Ontology1. Mathematics and Philosophy2. Philosophy and Mathematics3. The Question of Being 4. TodayPlatonism and the Philosophy of Mathematics5. The Being of Number6. One, Multiple, Multiplicities7. Spinoza¹s Closed Ontology

Part II. The Subtraction of Truth8. The Event as Trans-Being9. On Subtraction10. Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable11. Kant¹s Subtractive Ontology12. Eight Theses on the Universal13. Politics as a Truth Procedure

Part III. Logics of Appearance14. Being and Appearance15. Notes Toward a Thinking of Appearance16. The Transcendental17. Hegel and the Whole18. Language, Thought, Poetry